Topic: custom search urls

Hi

is it possible to do a search of punbb with a custom search box outside of punbb...this searchbox would just insert whatever word was entered at the end of an url.

at the moment a search for "sharks" on this forum looks like this:

http://punbb.org/forums/search.php?search_id=450241131

is there a way of doing it so that it could look like this:

http://punbb.org/forums/search.php?search_id=sharks

or could someone tell me how "sharks" becomes "450241131"

I am trying to code a custom, universal search box for punbb.

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Re: custom search urls

Take a look in the search_cache table
That won't actually work, since search ids are only meant to be used by 1 user, whereas multiple users could search for the same term

Re: custom search urls

just looked all through that and it gave me no clue.

All I want to do is be able to do a forum search from somewhere else.

Like you can with google for example:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en& … gle+Search

could you expand on what you mean by looking at that table as I can't seem to learn anything from it.  I also skimmed through the search.php file which I am guessing holds the key to this.

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Re: custom search urls

Oh, you misunderstood how search works wink
http://punbb.org/forums/search.php?acti … rch=Submit

That's a full search URL.

Re: custom search urls

oh fantastic thats what I was looking for

thank you smile

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